14 juli 2015 – According to Forbes writer Frances Coppola is “the deal that was finally agreed not sustainable. Everyone knows that. It was widely panned not only by left-sympathising economists, but also by Wall Street. It is questionable whether the Greek government will be able to get the first tranche of contentious requirements through…
4 juli 2015 – Voormalige minister van Financiën Yanis Varoufakis geeft op zijn website commentaar bij de dramatische uitkomst van de laatste Eurotop. “Het resultaat van de recente Eurotop is inderdaad niets anders dan het culminatiepunt van een coup.” Hij verwerpt in zijn blog de deal in de sterkst mogelijke bewoordingen.…
13 juli 2015 – De bekende financieel commentator Paul Mason schrijft op zijn blog dat de Grieken dan wel de euro ‘debtdeal’ hebben gewonnen, maar dat de democratie verloren heeft: ‘Everybody on earth with a smartphone understands what happened to democracy last night’. Mason is auteur van verschillende boeken en ‘visiting professor’ aan de universiteit van Wolverhampton. In…
30 juni 2015 – Rutger Bregman van De Correspondent vraagt zich af “hoe het toch mogelijk is dat de euro – die onze democratie had moeten versterken, de band tussen de Europese landen had moeten verstevigen en de welvaart van heel Europa had moeten vergroten – is ontaard in een…
8 juli 2015 – A senior member of Greece’s negotiating team speaks to Christian Salmon for Mediapart. In this interview a senior advisor to the Greek government, who has been at the heart of the past five months of negotiations between Athens and its international creditors, reveals the details of what…
The Truth Committee on Public Debt (Debt Truth Committee) was established on April 4, 2015, by a decision of the President of the Hellenic Parliament, Ms Zoe Konstantopoulou, who confided the Scientific Coordination of its work to Dr. Eric Toussaint and the cooperation of the Committee with the European Parliament…
6 juli 2015 – by George Arnett, Ami Sedghi, Achilleas Galatsidas and Sean Clarke, The Guardian. Referendum results in full. Voters were asked: ‘whether to accept the outline of the agreement submitted by the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund at the Eurogroup of 25/06/15′. (That…
9 juli 2015 – by Achilleas Galatsidas and George Arnett / The Guardian. “The Greek referendum has been presented as a split between young and old. This interactive map shows how, in the capital at least, it also flagged up divisions between the richest and poorest in society. Wealthy suburbs in the…
4 juli 2015 – Nicholas Vrousalis is assistant professor in Political Philosophy at Leiden University. He argues that ” The referendum announced by the Greek government on Sunday is its last-ditch attempt to get some leverage against the latest round of blackmail by the troika of the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF. Whatever…
3 juli 2015 – Jonathan Freedland is a British journalist, who writes a weekly column for he Guardian. He is also a regular contributor to the New York Times and the New York Review of Books, and presents BBC Radio 4’s contemporary history series, The Long View. Freedland argues: “The deficit fetishists of Brussels…
3 juli 2015 – Saskia Sassen is a Dutch-American sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. She is Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, and Chairs The Committee on Global Thought. Sassen coined the term global city. In this article Sassen addresses the reader directly: “You, dear reader, decide if…
Juli 2015 – Dimitris Vardoulakis is the chair of Philosophy of the University of Western Sydney. His research interests range from the relation between literature and philosophy to theories of power and sovereignty. Vardoulakis is commenting on the referendum with particular emphasis on the distinction between currency administration and political decision making in the EU. He argues…
2 juli 2015 – Worried by the current crisis affecting the Eurozone and many other parts of the world, we sometimes feel disempowered by our lack of deeper understanding of the mechanisms that have triggered such devastating developments. Dimitris Dalakoglou, professor of social anthropology at the VU university in Amsterdam, studied…
29 juni 2015 – Joseph Stiglitz, university professor at Columbia University and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics, clarifies his choice as far as the referendum of 5 July is concerned: “It is hard to advise Greeks how to vote on 5 July. Neither alternative – approval or rejection of…
28 juni 2015 – Philippe Legrain, former economic advisor to the president of the European Commission (2011 to 2014) and visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics’ European Institute, is commenting on the referendum to be held on 5 July: “Greece’s creditors hope that by unleashing chaos, they can bring…
28 juni 2015 – As Greece prepares for a monumental decision, there is only one certainty: the European Ideal has been irrevocably damaged. Alex Andreou expresses the feelings of many Greeks who live in Europe and felt until now being, first of all, European citizens. Read the whole article at: Byline.com
29 juni 2015 – Victoria Kupsch, Jonathan Buhl, Daphne Büllesbach, Nora Rathje, and Benjamin Zeeb argue in this article that “Europe is in dire need of radical change in social, financial and energy policies and more.” The great European project, once a positive model for voluntary and meaningful cooperation, has devolved into…
5 juni 2015 – Joseph Stiglitz, Nobelprijswinnaar en professor economie aan de Columbia Universiteit van New York, bekritiseert de harde bezuinigingsmaatregelen die Griekenland van zijn crediteuren moest uitvoeren en daarmee de Griekse economie in een neerwaartse spiraal brachten. In dit artikel becommentarieert hij de laatste ontwikkelingen rond de onderhandelingen tussen de…
18 juni 2015 – De Griekse regering heeft gelijk dat ze niet inbindt: dat is haar verantwoordelijkheid tegenover haar burgers. Jeffrey D. Sachs is een Amerikaanse topeconoom en directeur van het Earth Institute van de Columbia University en tevens auteur van veel besproken boeken ‘The End of Poverty’ en ‘The…
25 juni 2015 – In the New York Times Opinion Column, Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning Op-Ed columnist points out, that “the people who utterly failed to see the damage austerity would do — see the chart, which compares the projections in the 2010 standby agreement with reality — are now…
17 juni 2015 – Bas Jacobs is econoom en promoveerde in 2002 aan de Universiteit aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam op het proefschrift Public Finance and Human Capital. Sinds 2007 is hij hoogleraar economie en overheidsfinanciën aan de Erasmus School of Economics van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. Op zijn weblog publiceert hij een…
28 april 2015 – by Paul De Grauwe @pdegrauwe The Greek drama has entered its endgame. The Greek government has to repay loans to the IMF and other public institutions in the near future but does not have the cash to do so. The lenders refuse to come forward in providing liquidity as…
19 juni 2015 – Thomas Mayer, former Chief Economist of Deutsche Bank, proposed three years ago that introducing a parallel currency in Greece could be a solution to meeting the government’s financial obligations within Greece. Mayer was the creator of the ‘geuro scenario’. In this contribution to the `Centre for European Policy…
4 juni 2015 – In een brochure uitgegeven door Ander Europa wordt een aantal feiten op een rijtje gezet en een aantal mythes over de Griekse crisis ontkracht. “Voor wie alleen de koppen in de media bekijkt, kan het lijken alsof verspilzieke Grieken de EU in een crisis hebben gebracht waarvan wij…